Relations between painting and sculpture

The symbolic interplay between the veil and the altarpiece thus transcends into other meta-artistic directions. In the struggle between painting and sculpture expressed in the Dialogue between Nature and the Two Arts (Juan de Jaúregui, 1618), the altarpiece is volume and body, being versus seeming. Painting replicates:

el arte esencial
es fingir lo natural (…)
la vista engaño y desvelo

essential art
is to simulate what is natural […]
to deceive the eye and unveil